A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.